AI sentience
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 6, 2022 by Blake Lemoine · across every show →
Everything said about AI sentience, oldest first
Aug 6, 2022 negative
Jan 24, 2024 positive
Pineau: AI alignment is a grounded research problem, unlike speculative sentience concerns
“We've talked a lot this year about safety, for example, about how to make sure that we have models that are performing well, but also are aligning with the values of peoples and the needs of people which I consider sort of a much more grounded problem that we …”
May 9, 2024 neutral
Clark: AI sentience could become a field of study with systemic risks
“I'm saying that we may enter the weird zone where that becomes a thing that people study. And I think that if like sentience is a thing, you could imagine like weird versions of it leading to certain types of misuses or problems in the system as well.”
Feb 12, 2025 bearish
Extended LLM Interactions Expose Generic Predictive Training Over Sentience
“The more that you talk to it, the more generic it feels to you. The more you can actually feel The training data, the sort of, like, distilling down the training data and the predictive aspect. Like, oh, it's trying to predict what a human would say in this gi…”